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Foxfire 5 : Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintrock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living

Foxfire 5 : Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintrock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living

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Foxfire 5 : Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintrock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living

by Wigginton, Eliot (editor)

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ISBN 10
0385143087
ISBN 13
9780385143080
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Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1979. 6" wide by 9" tall. Appears unread. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. Not price clipped (10.95). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with photos, drawings, diagrams. Includes a 225-page section on gunmaking (black powder, barrel making, siler locks, modern gunsmiths, turkey shoots, etc.) Also covers blast furnaces, bellows, fireplace pokers, forge shovels, froes, cowbells, horseshoes. The bear hunting section addresses habits, habitat, bear dogs, trapping, buck fever, "Honest John," hunting lore, etc. . Seventh printing. Trade Paperback. As New condition. 512pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Synopsis

Foxfire 5 - Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and other affairs of plain living The "Foxfire" books began as a student-produced magazine in 1966 that contains stories and interviews from elders in their rural Southern Appalachian community.  The books are anthology collections of material from The Foxfire Magazine, edited and published by Eliot Wigginton.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Foxfire 5 : Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintrock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living
Author
Wigginton, Eliot (editor)
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
New As New condition
Edition
Seventh printing
ISBN 10
0385143087
ISBN 13
9780385143080
Publisher
Anchor Books, Doubleday
Place of Publication
Garden City, New York
Date Published
1979
Size
512pp
Bookseller catalogs
Sporting Books / Guns / Hunting / Fishing; Horses / Horsemanship / Equestrian Sports;

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